Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

These data are from the 20-, 15-, and 5-percent samples of
the 1970 United States Census of Population and Housing, and contain
tabulations of housing characteristics such as housing value, number
of housing units in structure, number of rooms in housing unit, year
structure was built, occupancy/vacancy status, tenure, rent, type of
heating fuel, source of water, and presence of an air conditioner and
other home appliances. Twenty selected summary areas -- including
states, counties, standard me... (more info)

These data are from the 20-, 15-, and 5-percent samples of
the 1970 United States Census of Population and Housing, and contain
tabulations of housing characteristics such as housing value, number
of housing units in structure, number of rooms in housing unit, year
structure was built, occupancy/vacancy status, tenure, rent, type of
heating fuel, source of water, and presence of an air conditioner and
other home appliances. Twenty selected summary areas -- including
states, counties, standard metropolitan statistical areas, urbanized
areas, and places -- constitute the units of observation.

Methodology

Version(s)

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 70 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 70 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2001-03-27 (1) The data are now available in ASCII format. (2)
Parts have been renumbered according to state FIPS codes. (3) The
codebook has been improved: additional bookmarks were inserted and the
PDF code was optimized.